( via / oil painting by me )

Everything is great! Everything is fine!

" Like Tennyson, Larkin is half in love with his own melancholy. He is also warning us against it." —Jem via

"This is why the traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous."

"The plum’s snow blooms are past,
Again I hear birds cry.
I fear this springtime grass
Will climb our polished steps too high."

—Wang Wei via

"My family and I (husband, son, dog and gecko) live in Montana, less than an hour from Yellowstone National Park, where wooly mammoths and giant camels and sloths once roved among the glaciers that carved the landscape into what it is today." (via @varaxes)